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Quotes About Meaning

The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
~ Gary Zukav
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
~ Agnes Smedley
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
~ Neil Gaiman
Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.? You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold?, comes at long last over everyone.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
~ Janelle Monae
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
~ Joseph Joubert
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
~ Denis Dutton
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
~ Jack London
There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.
~ Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
~ William Watson
Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.
~ Bruce Weigl
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.
~ Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
~ Allison Janney
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.
~ Cassandra Clare
Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.
~ Hayley Williams
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
~ Oscar Wilde
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
~ Keith Haring
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
~ Jim Dine
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
~ John Szarkowski
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
~ Jacques Delors
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
~ Emmanuel Jal
The best gift a fan could give me is undeniable support.
~ Jessie J
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.
~ Alex Lemon